7. Let us have our fill of costly wine and perfumes,and let no springtime blossom pass us by;
8. let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they wither.
9. Let no meadow be free from our wantonness;everywhere let us leave tokens of our merriment,for this is our portion, and this our lot.
10. Let us oppress the righteous poor;let us neither spare the widownor revere the aged for hair grown white with time.
11. But let our strength be our norm of righteousness;for weakness proves itself useless.
12. Let us lie in wait for the righteous one, because he is annoying to us;he opposes our actions,Reproaches us for transgressions of the lawand charges us with violations of our training.
13. He professes to have knowledge of Godand styles himself a child of the Lord.
14. To us he is the censure of our thoughts;merely to see him is a hardship for us,
15. Because his life is not like that of others,and different are his ways.
16. He judges us debased;he holds aloof from our paths as from things impure.He calls blest the destiny of the righteousand boasts that God is his Father.